494 INDEX. 



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Miani, Dr. Map of explorations of river Nile 124 



Military Academy 140 



Minerals sent to Columbia College, N. Y 64 



Mining department, Australia. Letter from 124 



Miscellaneous collections 39 



Molina, Seiior Louis. Letters from 130, 131 



Mongolia. Geological observations in 36 



Muller, F. Agent for exchanges at Amsterdam 74, 76 



Museum. Condition of 66, 84 



Congress should establish 67 



Donations to 86,122,127,128 



Object of 59,60 



Museum of city of Bern. Letter from 128 



Museum of Comparative Zoology. Shells presented to 66 



Myriapoda, by Dr. H. C. Wood, jr 43 



National Academy of Sciences 36, 48, 137 



National museum should be established by government 67 



Natural History. References respecting 64 



Transactions of Geneva Society 189,200 



Navajo Indians. Account of 125 



Neptune, investigation of the orbit of, by Prof. Newcomb 23, 24 



Newcomb, Simon. Investigation of the orbit of Neptune 23, 24 



Newton, Prof. II. A. Tables of weights and measures 462 



New York State Cabinet of Natural History. Shells sent to 66 



New York. Meteorological system of 52 



Nootka Sound language, vocabulary, and grammar 38 



Observatory. Washington 24, 25 



Officers of the Institution 5,71 



Oology. Brewer, on 60, 63 



Ordnance. Heavy 157 



Ornithology. Smithsonian publications on 24,40 



Osteography. Blainville's researches 186 



Owen, Rich. Letter from 134 



Palaeontology. Blainville's researches 182 



Palafittes, or lacustrian constructions, by E. Desor 346 



Panizzi, A. Letter from 133 



Patterson, Hon. J.W., acts as Regent 115,116,117,118,119,121 



Patton, Jos. H. Attorney relative to Wynn estate 117 



Peabody, George. Services rendered by 21, 109 



Peirce, Prof. Benj. Researches relative to planet Neptune 25 



Pennsylvania. Meteorological system of 52 



Personnel of the Institution 71 



Petitot, Rev. E. Letter from 135 



Philological instructions 23 



Physical characteristics of soldiers 47 



Physics ; transactions of Geneva Society 189, 200 



Physiology, electro.* Lectures on, by Matteucci 291 



Plantamour, Dr. Report on transactions of Geneva Society 200 



Plants sent to Drs. Torrey and Gray 64 



Plateau, J. Researches on figures of equilibrium of a liquid mass 409 



Pontifical Academy of the Nuovi Lincei. Prizes offered by 450 



Powell, Com. L. M. Researches by 69 



Priestley. Apparatus of 18 



Prime, Temple. On Corbiculadje 40 



